Celeb supporters of jkr

Oh this thread moves fast! My last was referring to Ricky Gervais.

He back pedalled. He was tweeting a lot about Jessica/Jonathan Yaniv, but when pushed he parroted the TWAW line. He does support Blair White though, who is a transwoman who is entirely sane about the whole thing, which is something.

What I’m really hoping might be going on is a HUGE swathe of personal messages of support to her from lots and lots of celebs who may one day publicly support her. We must respect that it is career suicide for many and a burden of guilt shouldn’t be laid at their door.

The Conservative MP Ben Bradley has tweeted in support of JK Rowling.

twitter.com/BBradley_Mans/status/1271007379023433729?s=19

I saw the Witch finder generals list of “wrong thinkers” and it made me feel physically sick. How he spoke to Alison Moyet was completely disgusting and his casual misogynistic “past it” comments are horrific.

To add to this list:
Gary Lineker
Nicola Adams
Basically anyone involved in sport

I thought Ricky Gervais had, last year?

Sorry he said 'non-binary people are themselves' - even worse apparently!

He was being thoroughly taken to task though by his caricature of British politics. What a plum. It was like something a fifteen year old might have written.

Emma Kennedy was saying some supportive stuff yesterday on twitter. I can't find it now of course.

Did people see Lin Manuel Miranda getting told off the other day because he said 'non-binary people are valid' when of course what he should have said was 'non-binary people are non-binary'

It made me

Wow I will be so so impressed with Tom Felton if he has. He will get a lot of hate.

Without meaning to sound like Nikki on Big Brother who even is Aiden Comerford? I’ve literally only come across him as a spiteful TRA misogynist on Twitter (where his profile just gives a link to a self-published ebook?) why does anyone care what he says/thinks, who actually is he, why does seem to think he has any kind of power or influence?

I’m most disappointed, although not especially surprised, by George Takei this evening. But then Buck Angel has stood up and disagreed with him, good ole Tranpa!

(Buck calls himself Tranpa, before anyone piles on).

Comerford by himself is reason enough to keep sex segregated spaces.

I’m certainly worried about the kind of behaviour he demonstrates. Alison Moyet clearly expressed her view that she doesn’t want to be in anyone’s tribe, but he just wouldn’t let it go.

According to Posie Parker's latest live stream Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) has just liked something supportive of Jo and then promptly disappeared (can't blame him for that part) 50 points to Slytherin if that is the case.

AC is so unbelievably angry and over invested in this for someone who doesn't have skin in the game....I wonder what he likes to wear to relax of an evening...

Isn’t it the case that many journalists are also young? I may be wrong, but as I understand it it it is a very competitive but low paid field for most. I know that doesn’t make them incapable of critical thought, but it may explain that their starting point is likely to be acceptance of the TRA narrative because at first sight it sits well with the welcome accepting and inclusive nature of current youth culture. It must be a very long climb to get to the point of viewing the gender critical position as actually the more inclusive and accepting one.

I've got a real thing about Aidan Comerford. You know when people say someone makes their skin crawl - its that. He just gives me the heebie jeebies something chronic.

Agreed. Comerford by himself is reason enough to keep sex segregated spaces.

The Leeds Spinners say it best

This is Alison's reply to Aidan's 'I'll take you off my naughty list if you do as I say' tweet. What a legend she is!

"I have absolutely no problem taking you off this list if you can say that Magdalen Berns was a transphobe, and it is wrong of anyone to call a person who spewed this sort of hatred "brave.
Good god he’s vile

Made me think of this though (sorry I don’t know who made it)

I know Twitter is often toxic but it seems particularly bad right now. I wonder if we're seeing the mental health consequences of
over two months in lockdown. People not going to work, not seeing colleagues, friends, family, stuck inside. They become completely overinvested in Twitter and the shit show of the last week is the result. It would have been horrendous anyway, I'm sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if this exacerbated it.

Ricky Gervais just went live seemingly discussing this or the situation in general with ruining people for free speech.

I‘m dismayed about Glenn Greenwald. He has supported Navratilova in the past, when she questioned the fairness transwomen in women‘a sports.
But now it‘s just ‚Rowling playing victim‘ and ‚I wonder why Britain is to exceptionally transphobic in its discourse....‘ Very disappointing.

(I happen to be very critical of much of Rowling‘s politics and admire GG‘s critical analyses. But in this instance GG is plainly irrational.)

As though she cares about his list.

She just refuses to play. Alison Moyet is great.